How can conservatives say Hitler was a leftist/socialist?

[Santander]

To a certain extent they are right of course, i will admit. There is no cooperation at all, but unlike in the U.S , we on the far-left and the AFD do compete among the same voter base (White working class in the east), and we have very similar foreign policy (pro-russia, pro-china, pro-assad, anti-nato, anti-eu) and we are both somewhat authoritarian and unitarist/centralist and hate the Berlin liberal elites. Horseshoe theory in action one might say.

I like both Linke and AfD.

[Santander]

Simple: National Socialist German Workers Party.

They were socialist in the same way I'm libertarian.